You know you are an artist when....(based solely on personal experience)
- Almost all of your furniture has smears of paint on it.
- Every wall in your home has one or more of your works and there is still a stack gathering dust.
- You love getting your hands dirty with paint - in your eyes it is better than any manicure.
- There is always a 'work in progress' on your easel and a few more behind the door.
- You've accidentally dipped your brushes in coffee and drank the water you rinsed your brushes in.
- You look at blank walls and get excited at the prospect of how you could fill them up
- You click pictures of telephone wires and imagine how you would paint the raindrops sliding off them.
- You wonder that colors you would use to paint the shadow of the street lamp while you wait for the bus.
- You think in blues and oranges with hints of yellow when looking at a stormy sky.
- You've spent considerable time thinking about how sunlight changes colors over the course of the day.
- You sit in meetings and mentally draw caricatures of people.
- You can't help admiring rusted containers and peeling paint and thinking of what great abstract art they would make.
- When sitting in a bar, you look at every beer bottle and cocktail in terms of how 'paint-worthy' it is.
- You've had disagreements with your spouse if your sketchbook qualifies for the list of 'essentials' when packing light for your holiday.
- You have bouts of paint-marathons from time to time - especially the week before you have planned an exhibition.
- You look at everything as a subject for painting - the neighbor's dog, clothes on the laundry line, the delivery truck, people at the train station - everything.
- All you want in your dream house is a studio.
- For you a white plate is never white - its made up of a fifty shades of grey.
- You remember the day you got your first box of paints.
- You laugh at the absurdity of all of the above but wouldn't change a thing.
